Jigsaw takes on corporate America in this sixth installment of the usually engrossing, but now fairly played out horror series. A pair of insurance executives find themselves the subject of Jigsaw's latest set of choice based Rube Goldberg torture scenarios. There's also another storyline about law enforcement trying to stop Jigsaw's games (even though Jigsaw died in "Saw 3"). The first Saw film is easily the best. That film was more of a grizzly thriller than a torture porn horror film, which the sequels quickly became. James Wan left after the first film, and Darren Lynn Bousman took over directing the next three films, which were reasonably clever and managed to continue the story without repeating themselves, but from part five on, the series began to repeat itself ad nauseam. As was with part five, the story fo part six serves only an excuse to create new elaborate torture chambers and violent traps where the characters have to repeatedly make awful no-win decisions in order to survive. As a fan of horror films, I will admit that Jigsaw's grizzly "games" hold my interest and each scenario makes me think, "what would I do in that situation?" That's the major hook for the Saw films and it still works here, but that's not really enough to justify this film's existence or the sequels that followed. Still, I suppose this is worth watching if you liked the prior films, even if it's nowhere as good.

The biggest strength the 'Saw' series possesses it how intelligent they are, however the biggest weakness the series possesses is that too many of the film aren't unique enough and don't have personally identifying features. So where does 'Saw VI' fall in terms of those two parameters? As far as intelligence goes it is up there with the smartest in the series. It is thought-provoking, challenging and has an extremely clever twist ending. It succeeds in this area as much as, if not more than, every other entry in the series. What about in terms of being unique though? Again this is the only fault with the film, as it is with many of the later editions. It feels very similar in format and style to every other film and when there are seven entries in your series, that makes them very hard to separate in your mind.I really enjoyed 'Saw VI'. It is everything a 'Saw' film should be. The brutality is immense, the layers to the story are plentiful and the ending is superbly executed. I would say the dialogue in this one is perhaps less memorable in spots than other films in the series, but only in a very minor way. This is probably the best of the latter editions to the series and one that ensured the series would have a lasting impact on a lot of people. A 'Saw' entry not to be missed.

Okay. First of all, the atmosphere in this movie is spot on. The music is so well put together. Everything else... just a huge disappointment and much worse than Saw V.THE TRAPS: There was probably one trap in this film that I actually LIKED, which was the first trap you see. It was really creative and had a very sinister feeling to it.However, the rest were just as boring as the ones in Saw V. My least favorite was the Shotgun Marry Ago Around. This trap looks SO RETARDED! Why a Marry Ago Around first of all? And why A shotgun? Not only shotguns aren't very horrific, but the fact that six people have to survive just ONE... is just lame!THE PLOT: GOOD GRIEF! The plot made absolute ZERO sense! It felt like they were trying to rush for some answers to previous questions without thinking about what actually happened in the franchise. Jigsaw avoids every single pattern he made in the previous films. He went from "death is distasteful" to "in order to survive, someone needs to die". Why would Jigsaw give the player a rule to kill someone? Some might say that Hoffman made the rules, but JIGSAW is the one explaining them on the TV screens!Amanda's letter is also "revealed" in this film; I disagree with this statement by the way. The letter does not follow any of the patterns in Saw III. First of all, that movie already GIVES you the reasoning why Amanda shot Lynn in the first place! She did that because she felt like Jigsaw was betraying her for Lynn. Now there's a completely different reasoning that makes no sense!THE ENDING: A very disappointing ending. Basically William gets killed by some kid for rejecting his dad's coverage. HOW DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE TEST?! William was supposed to finish his game before time was up, only to find out that IT'S NOT HIS GAME...?! What was he supposed to learn from all of that, and again, why would Jigsaw give the option to KILL William? I thought "Killing is distasteful".God this film is compete garbage! I'm so upset that my favorite franchise is falling off the hill so rapidly!

After the utterly confusing fifth installment of the "Saw" franchise, I knew that the "Saw" brand would be at a crossroads, with this effort likely determining its future viability. As it turned out, this is where the slow bleed begins.For a basic plot summary, Saw 6 sees Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) continuing the work of the very much deceased Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). This time, in keeping with real-life events, the targets of the cruel iron death traps are mortgage loaners and health care representatives, and they are both morally and physically tested by the horrifying ordeal.I have one very positive thing to saw about the film, which is that I least I could understand what was going on (something I could not say about the fifth movie). Instead of overly relying on Jigsaw flashbacks (although there are still a few of those), this film kind of goes back to the roots of the original, where the focus is on the morality of the "game", not on Jigsaw's tangled personal web. Unfortunately, that is about the only compliment I can give.The main problem with a film like this is that it has milked the source material so dry that it's more disappointing than interesting. The original "Saw" completely changed the game in terms of horror flicks, but each subsequent sequel only watered things down a little bit more. By the time this one rolled around, there are no more surprises and the shock value is gone, plain and simple. Basically, one can only "go to the well" so many times before it dries up.Thus, although this franchise hasn't produced the worst sequels in horror movie history (see: Halloween), by "Saw 6" it is clear that the originality has dried up and the writers/producers are running on fumes. Who knows how long the franchise will continue, as the horror genre can always bank on that one special week (up to October 31) for good business, but suffice it to say that it will only serve to make us appreciate the genius of the original even more.